How to Use scuzzy in a Sentence

scuzzy

adjective

• He is a scuzzy guy.
• The Stones are at their best when playing scuzzy blues with the shellac stripped away.
  — David Harris, SPIN, 6 July 2026
• For them, the whole group of speculators in railroad bonds was kind of scuzzy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2021
• If your coffee is coming out bitter and scuzzy, your moka pot might need a deep clean.
  — Megan Wahn, Bon Appétit, 16 Aug. 2022
• His novels about the scuzzy bits of London life are nastily readable.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2020
• Jasper, with his greasy long hair and scuzzy mug and brash instincts, is the veteran too smart to fool, the fly in every ointment.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2023
• In his scuzzy motel rooms, Tell wraps every piece of furniture — the lamps, the desks, the bed — in white cloths.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
• Throughout the album, there are scuzzy bass lines reminiscent of the Stooges.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 3 Dec. 2020
• Mike would rather move the bullseye to the Aryans, who have some scuzzy operatives working outside the prison that no one will miss.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 2 June 2024
• The guests have lots of range — there are serial cheaters, all types of scuzzy folks and even a man who likes to dress as a baby and act out everything, down to the boom boom in his diaper.
  — David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 29 Feb. 2024
• The movie still has its charms, most of which come from Michael Keaton in the lead role, who was firmly in the fun, scuzzy, Pittsburgh period of his career.
  — Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
• In that gap, the band tightened up the spaces in its songs and beefed up the scuzzy melodic lines to make Guppy, a no-filler album of 10 concise, joyous pop-punk blasts.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2017
• Gone is the attention to process and scuzzy detail that made the first heist film notable, replaced here by a wild, drunken emotional energy that dispenses with story logic and clarity.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
• The movie is about an unhappy nurse, Martha, and a scuzzy gigolo, Ray, who draws Martha into his scheme of luring lonely old ladies into their nest and killing them for their pensions.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
• The moment mirrors the broad terror that defines the band’s scuzzy, hooky rock music that takes aim at gentrification and homogeneity, settling down and domesticity.
  — Pitchfork, 6 Dec. 2023
• Beetz plays Bo, a compassionate celebrity photographer who leaves behind the scuzzy practice after snapping photos of an actor having an affair, which leads to his suicide.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
• The original was a potent enough folk-rock tune, but for her solo rendition Kiah dialed up the amplifiers and turned it into a pulverizing number that weds blues and scuzzy alt-rock to a funky backbeat.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2021
• About 20 miles south of Cancun, Mexico, on a stifling summer day, Tom Iliffe squints over a limestone ledge and into a giant pool of scuzzy, brown water.
  — Jennifer Berglund, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2014
• That context may help explain why Big Tech products can sometimes feel frustrating, such as unhelpful Google search results or scuzzy Instagram accounts.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• Henriksen plays Hanlon as a gorgeously scuzzy wannabe-dandy quickshooter who, convinced of his unflappable trigger talents, features in the film's most memorable duel opposite Hackman.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2023
• The prior Deadpool films were scuzzy and cobbled together, even as the budget grew; the cameos from other Marvel characters felt half-hearted and perfunctory, inclusions for Deadpool to roll his eyes at, not for fans to cheer over.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 July 2024
• The organization is a civilian crime-watch group whose recruits became street icons for patrolling scuzzy subway cars, intimidating chain snatchers, making the occasional citizen’s arrest, and irritating the police.
  — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• The series, in fact, begins with Costello and daughter Iris (Fleur Tashjian), nearing her 10th birthday, getting kicked out of their scuzzy flat and beginning an eight-episode odyssey for domestic stability.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2023